The global scenario put together by communication networks determines new opportunities towards the realization of Internetbased distributed services in many complex and composite...
Electronic payment systems have gradually become an important issue nowadays because of the popularity and importance of electronic commerce on the Internet. Security and convenie...
Systems of systems (SoS) are a hot topic in our "fully connected global world". Our aim is not to provide another definition of what SoS are, but rather to focus on the a...
A composite multimedia object (cmo) is comprised of different media components such as text, video, audio and image, with a variety of constraints that must be adhered to. The con...
: Firewalls have been designed as a major component to protect a network or a server from being attacked. However, due to their emphasis on packet filtering rather than verifying u...